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My MIX 10 talk, an introduction to unit testing on Silverlight and the Windows Phone, is now online for streaming and download. Thank you to everyone who attended.
An early preview set of bits are online at http://jeffatmix.com/ – and the next release of the Silverlight Toolkit when Silverlight 4 ships will contain support for the ... 17 Mar 2010
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The source code plugin that I use on my blog is great, but does require that I insert some escaped tags with special class names in the XHTML.
For years I’ve used the InsertTagSnippet plugin by Coskun Sunali to help me write posts – but on Windows 7, it doesn’t work well without running Live Writer ... 10 Mar 2010
I’ve adapted a syntax highlighting engine to generate a syntax highlighting TextBlock control for Silverlight. This control has built-in syntax highlighting C#, C++, JavaScript, VB.NET, XAML/XML.
In the future, once Silverlight 4 is out, I’ll of course make sure to update this to work with the rich text control to allow for copying and pasting ... 8 Mar 2010
At MIX 10 this year, Tues. 3/16 at 2pm: Learn from Jeff Wilcox how to create and maintain Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series applications using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework. 7 Mar 2010
Here's a simple application (and optional source) for a tool to allow you to quickly Authenticode code sign Visual Studio 2010 extension files (VSIX). 2 Mar 2010
I recently documented the steps to "code signing 101": acquiring a trusted cert/key pair, the process, and then signing an app. 27 Feb 2010
On the Silverlight team, I use this Visual Studio 2010 extension to keep my comments looking pretty. 26 Feb 2010
The AutoCompleteBox control I originally developed for the Silverlight Toolkit is now inside of the WPF Toolkit. 25 Feb 2010
Here are a few of the Visual Studio C# code snippets that we use on the Silverlight team when building controls and apps.
Download a zip (7 KB) of them all and extract them into your Snippets folder, which is in your Documents folder: Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets\. These also work with Visual ... 10 Feb 2010
I’ve seen many ways of grouping C# source over the years, but one that I never fully appreciated as being disgusting until this year was grouping like PMEs: public methods, protected methods, etc.
Sure, many source formatting guidelines (and perhaps even default StyleCop settings) suggest this grouping style. But, tell me: what is useful about this?
Here’s ... 9 Dec 2009
The November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit is essentially a tools and infrastructure release on top of the October 2009 release (where we first introduced Visual Studio 2010 support). It also adds a Silverlight 4 Beta version.
New infrastructure & test tools ship in the Silverlight Toolkit
There is a lot in the release that is joining publicly for ... 20 Nov 2009
The Silverlight Controls Browser sample app can now be taken out-of-browser. Here's info on that, plus how to get it done in your own apps. 19 Nov 2009
BusyIndicator is a new control included in the November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit. 19 Nov 2009
The November 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit finally includes application library caching support to help reduce the size of your application .Xaps. 19 Nov 2009
It’s now even easier to get started with the Silverlight Toolkit, an excellent complement to your Silverlight development environment. The latest Silverlight 3 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is now available on the Web PI. It is now the recommended way of getting the toolkit.
Here’s a link to the installer, if you don’t already ... 4 Nov 2009
Here's a simple tool that I use to round-trip Silverlight solutions and projects between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta. Use it at your own risk, but enjoy! 22 Oct 2009
Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit. 20 Oct 2009
The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is out, and includes easy drag and drop components and an awesome Visual Studio 2010 experience for the toolkit controls. 19 Oct 2009
After using the Starbucks mobile card app for iPhone, I set out to create similar 2D barcodes in Silverlight 3. 30 Sep 2009
If you’re using existing imaging libraries with your Silverlight applications, they often represent a Color from the System.Drawing world in the full framework as an integer. An ARGB value is a 32-bit integer with the byte-ordering of AARRGGBB. Using some simple bit shifts and an extension method, you can have this functionality in Silverlight as ... 23 Sep 2009
The awesome online Sunday Night Football experience features the Accordion control from the Silverlight Toolkit. 14 Sep 2009
Here's an initial set of guidelines for building Silverlight custom controls. The first of hopefully many more posts. 26 Aug 2009
Here's a Visual Basic implementation of HighlightingTextBlock for Silverlight 3. 26 Aug 2009
Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, I’d like to take a moment to revisit the highlighting AutoCompleteBox control that I blogged about back in November of ‘08, and again earlier this year, thanks to tooling improvements: Expression Blend 3 is out, and the Visual Studio 2008 tools have changed as well. There are new project ... 26 Aug 2009
Two weeks ago, I posted the July 2009 release of the Silverlight Unit Test Framework online for folks looking for updated bits. Of course, the real gem is the Silverlight 3 version. Now that Silverlight 3 has shipped, you should definitely look at moving forward to this great new version.
Download the binaries
I’ve updated the MSDN ... 16 Jul 2009
Here are two nice posts by Jimmy Schementi, one showing simple testing in Python, the other using IronRuby to actually test C# apps! 8 Jul 2009
If you're looking to learn more about Silverlight unit testing, here are 3 screencasts of interest. 1 Jul 2009
Just posting a general update here, hopefully this isn’t syndicated on the Silverlight site or anything .
I am sorry that all has been quiet on the blog front for a while, as summer rolls around we always find a way to keep busy with a strong set of work items, feature work, and sunshine ... 1 Jul 2009
If you're doing Silverlight 2 development with the unit test framework, you might want to check out the latest release that includes bug fixes and a few small new features. 1 Jul 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit's chart controls have made their way into the WPF Toolkit! More details on David's blog. 29 Jun 2009
I’m pleased to announce that the Silverlight Unit Test Framework received honorable mention at the Microsoft Engineering Excellence awards ceremony this evening. It’s great having the tool recognized as an important contribution to not only the success of Silverlight, but also to the success of so many development and test partners, both inside and outside ... 1 Jun 2009
We're considering simplifying the AutoCompleteBox API be removing a few rarely used events, and would love to get some feedback from scenarios this might impact. 30 Apr 2009
As we ready the next release of the AutoCompleteBox control for Silverlight, I'd love to get the community's input on API names, API experience, and any suggestions before we "lock down" the control. 6 Apr 2009
This post contains the sample app and control source code from Jeff Wilcox's MIX '09 talk, Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF. 3 Apr 2009
Thanks to the Silverlight 3 Beta, the AutoCompleteBox can become a highlighting auto complete control even easier! 24 Mar 2009
The AutoCompleteBox control received some data binding improvements and can now be found in the Silverlight 3 Beta SDK. 24 Mar 2009
Although the Silverlight Tools don't have a multi-targeting story, you can build Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine. Here's information on how we do this within the Silverlight Toolkit team. 23 Mar 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit's March 2009 release is out, now with an installation experience that adds controls to the Visual Studio and Expression Blend toolbox, and improves the design experience. 23 Mar 2009
Check out my Sharing Skills and Code with Silverlight and WPF talk from MIX '09. Yeah, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there! 22 Mar 2009
A control for Gravatars that works in Silverlight 2 and WPF. Download contains binaries and full open source code. 9 Mar 2009
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